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Get StartedDid I just hear that right the dodgers are 51-9 over thier last 60 after they win tonight? Holy shit!
Is hitting for the cycle an official statistics?
Because if it is, if you hit two homeruns a single and a double, you should get credit for hitting for the cycle.
Because on one of your homeruns you also got to third base. To me it's simple math. You got to third base but you also got the home. You should get credit to getting yourself to third base.
Not that tonight's game didn't suck but what's new?
So every player who is it for home runs in a game in my opinion has also also hit for the cycle.
But of course so what? Four homeruns is a way bigger event than hitting for the cycle.
Post game; Dodgers Acquire Curtis Granderson.
Or he could've just stayed on third and let the next hitter come to the plate.
If the score was 22 to 4 and there were two outs maybe someone would do that.
Maybe a lot more cycles have been achieved and no one has looked at the math or the logic.
If you have four of something, you also have three of something. That is the most basic and simple arithmetic and logic there is.
If you have had a homerun a single and a double, and you hit a homerun, you have achieved three bases in the final at bat. You also have achieved an additional base. That doesn't mean you didn't achieve the third-base.
With all the unimaginable math geek nerds who follow baseball and have nothing better to do but create sabermetrics and all kinds of silly shit, it's amazing to me that this has never occurred to anybody before. Maybe because geeks and nerds's don't actually think about shit logically. Maybe none of them have ever taken a college level course in introductory logic, I don't know.
If you have achived getting to first base, getting to second base, getting to third-base, and getting home in four different at bats, you've hit for the cycle arithmetically and logically. If in any or in all of those base hits you've achieved more than getting to first base and second base and third-base and home in four different at bats, you still hit for the cycle. It's arithmetically and logically indisputable.
There have been times players have stopped at 2B when they could have went to 3B. Double was the last one they needed. Not sure anyone would give up a HR for a triple. Plus, I don't think you can just stop.
Probably almost every game a player stops second when the player maybe could've gotten to third. Lots of players stop at first base when they maybe could've stretched a base hit to a double. I guess sometimes a player stops with the triple when, that player possibly could've had an inside the park homerun.
People forgo attempting the extra bass and settle to stop safely every single game.
A player really doesn't know for sure if they "could have gone" until the player actually goes and arrives safely.
EDIT: Correction-obviously in the rare case of a no-hitter the above doesn't apply. A player cannot attempt pursuing an additional base without safely getting to the base before it.
I'm referring to the player who stops at 2B when the ball is still in the RF corner. Those type of plays. It was an easy triple, some go get the triple some settle for the cycle.
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